Tablets are great for consuming content, but so far have been lacking in the capability to create it. Whether it’s due to limited hardware capabilities, the touchscreen interface, or software, vendors ...

You can expect an avalanche of new-product introductions on the coattails of Microsoft’s Windows 7 launch this month, and HP has seized the occasion to debut a spate of desktop and laptop PCs aimed at ...

The simplest check to determine if your Windows 7 computer is ready to connect to a wireless network is to glance at the notification area in the lower right corner of the screen. If there is a ...

Mitch Tulloch is a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional and lead author of the Windows 7 Resource Kit from Microsoft Press. You can follow him on Twitter at ...

In this final part of the netbook desktop comparison, I will look at Windows 7 Starter, which is what came preloaded on my Samsung N150 Plus. I have mixed feelings about even including it in the ...

Usually the systems I see in this price range have crummy Celeron processors. This one's above-average, spec-wise. Rick Broida is the author of numerous books and thousands of reviews, features and ...

The KDE Community wants Windows 7 users to migrate to the Plasma desktop environment after Microsoft's 10-year-old OS will reach end of support next week and stops receiving security and bug fixes.

Reader Edwin wants to know how to change the themes in Windows 7. Specifically, he has multiple photos he wants to use for his desktop background, but can’t find a way to add more than one. If you’ve ...

Windows 7, the newest version of Microsoft’s desktop operating system, comes with numerous functional improvements over its widely used predecessors, Vista and XP. Some of these enhancements—such as ...

Over the past few days -- since word of Windows XP Mode and Windows Virtual PC went public-- Microsoft has provided so far only the barest of details about its planned Virtual XP Mode functionality ...

The backwards compatibility of new operating systems has been a constant thorn in Microsoft's side. With Vista, the compatibility problems at launch were so great it never really stood a chance of ...